Former president’s notorious ‘Be there, will be wild!’ tweet was catalyst for violent protests, congress members will argue
The House January 6 select committee is expected to make the case at its seventh hearing Tuesday thatgave the signal to the extremist groups that stormed the Capitol to target and obstruct the congressional certification of Joe Biden’s electoral college win.
And Trump sent the tweet knowing that for those groups, it amounted to a confirmation that they should put into motion their plans for January 6, the select committee will say, and encouraged thousands of other supporters to also march on the Capitol for a protest. The select committee also currently plans to play video clips from former White House counsel Pat Cipollone’sRaskin is expected to first touch on the immediate events before the tweet: a contentious White House meeting on 18 December 2020 where Trump weighed seizing voting machines and appointing conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell as special counsel to investigate election fraud.
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